 The philosophers of antiquity, interrogated as to the cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and a plausible answer. It did not enter their minds even to doubt that these low forms of life were generated in the matters in which they made...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 3841870Full view - About this book
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...antiquity, interrogated as to the cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and a plausible answer. It did not enter their minds even to doubt...in which they made their appearance. Lucretius, who bad drunk deeper of the scientific spirit than any poet of ancient or modern times except Goethe, intends... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 330 pages
...antiquity, when interrogated as to the cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and plausible answer. It did not enter their minds even to doubt...in the matters in which they made their appearance, and the proposition that life may, and does, proceed from that which has no life was held alike by... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 316 pages
...antiquity, when interrogated as to the cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and plausible answer. It did not enter their minds even to doubt...in the matters in which they made their appearance, and the proposition that life may, and does, proceed from that which has no life was held alike by... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1871 - 714 pages
...these phenomena, were provided with a ready and a plausible answer. It did not enter their minds oven to doubt that these low forms of life were generated in the matters in which they made tlicir appearance1. Lucretius, who had drunk deeper of tho scientific spirit than any poet of ancient... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1871 - 720 pages
...cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and a plausible answer. It did not enter tKeir minds even to doubt that these low forms of life were generated in the mattere in which they made their appearance. Lucretius, who had drunk deeper of the scientific spirit... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 668 pages
...antiquity, when interrogated as to the cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and plausible answer. It did not enter their minds even to doubt that these low forma of life were generated in the matters in which they made their appearance, and the proposition... | |
 | Charles Tilstone Beke, Jesus Christ - 1872 - 332 pages
...versatile abilities, distinguished alike as scholar, poet, physician, and naturalist ; ' namely, that the ' low forms of life were generated in the matters in which they made their appearance ' — the doctrine, in fact, of ' spontaneous generation,' with which St. Paul's argument has nothing... | |
 | American Medical Association - Electronic journals - 1878 - 1242 pages
...shall preface my remarks with a brief resume of the former subject. The ancients supposed that the low forms of life were generated in the matters in which they made their appearance. Huxley says: "The proposition that life may, and does, proceed from that which has no life, then, was... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 488 pages
...antiquity, interrogated as to the cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and a plausible answer. It did not enter their minds even to doubt...their appearance. Lucretius, who had drunk deeper of tho scientific spirit than any poet of ancient or modern times except Goethe, intends to speak as a... | |
 | Beriah André Watson - 1885 - 832 pages
...shall preface my remarks with a brief resume of the former subject. The ancients supposed that the low forms of life were generated in the matters in...Goethe, intends to speak as a philosopher, rather then as a poet, when he writes that ' with good reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since... | |
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